Yossi Matias
Israeli computer scientist
Yossi Matias (Hebrew: יוסי מטיאס) is an Israeli-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology executive. He serves as Vice President of Engineering & Research at Google and is the Head of Google Research. Matias was the founding managing director of Google's Center in Israel.
Matias has been part of the leadership team of Google Research, serving as the global executive lead for initiatives in Health AI, Crisis Response, and Climate AI, and leads work in Conversational AI.
For more than a decade, he was a key figure in Google Search leadership, helping develop and oversee products and features including Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Search Console, and search experiences related to weather, sports, and dictionaries. In 2024, Matias relocated to Silicon Valley to lead Google Research globally, overseeing the company's worldwide research activities.
Matias established the Research and Development Center of Google in Israel. growing it to over 2500 on staff, with efforts working on Search, AI, Waze, Cloud and Chip design. He led the development of Google products such as Google Trends, Google Insights for Search, Google Suggest, Google Visualization API, Ephemeral IDs for IoT.
He led efforts in Conversational AI including Google Duplex, Call Screen, Live Caption, Live Relay, Recorder, and Euphonia.
He led development of Generative AI breakthroughs including Speculative Decoding and Factuality, and led advancing Healthcare and Scientific discovery with AI including
Med-Palm, AMIE, MedGemma, and AI Co-Scientist.
He pioneered an initiative to bring cultural and heritage collections online, such as the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum archive, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nelson Mandela Archive, which along with Google Art Project seeded up Google Cultural Institute.
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